Joe Duck

Have Blog. Will Travel.

Google News goes local

Google has launched a local news service that scans local news items for context and then lists them according to relevance to your city or zip code query at Google News.   Testing this today on a few Oregon cities I’ve been  impressed with the results as they seem to pull from some obscure but relevant sources and if Google eventually starts using most of the tens of thousands of local newspaper online sites and other sources this could be a superb tool for mashing up news with websites and blogs.

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February 7, 2008 - Posted by | Google, mashup, mashups, news | , ,

1 Comment »

  1. I just posted on local news being overly interested in people watching them (than providing news), esp. in their use of teasers, so I’m glad that google is going local.

    Comment by A Free Spirit | October 19, 2009 | Reply


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